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> an emulator is legal as long as it's a clean-room implementation And this is why it is often done on completely legitimate open source projects, and many pro
by badRNG 6y ago
> an emulator is legal as long as it's a clean-room implementation
And this is why it is often done on completely legitimate open source projects, and many projects don't shy away from doing so. Wine, ReactOS, and many more regularly do so completely legally.
(of course there was that thing in '06... https://www.linux.com/news/reactos-suspends-development-source-code-review/ https://www.linux.com/news/reactos-suspends-development-sour...)
- woodrowbarlow 6y agothat reactOS kerfuffle is just one of many, many examples of how a tainted clean-room design can completely derail an open-source project, and most stories have a nastier ending than that one. the dolphin emulator team (gamecube/wii emulator) made a statement on the nintendo leaks: https://twitter.com/Dolphin_Emu/status/1257051968045899776 https://twitter.com/Dolphin_Emu/status/1257051968045899776